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“She also highlighted concerning statements from President Trump, including his recent inability to recall fundamental facts about his first administration and his repeated struggles to articulate basic constitutional responsibilities.”

Rep. Crockett Launches Investigation into the Administration’s Cover-Up of President Trump’s Failing Health WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Today Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) issued a formal letter to White House Physician Captain Sean P.

“In her letter, @crockett.house.gov cited multiple reports of the President exhibiting visible swelling, discoloration, difficulty walking, and cognitive lapses during public appearances.” crockett.house.gov/media/press-...

JD Vance has the face of a guy that NEEDS to grow a beard. He grew that shit out because he knew it'd help him look a little butch and manly. Honestly I wasn't sure if he could grow facial hair because he looks like a newsie. He has newsie face. A hotel doorman should be shooing him away.

The question to ask is ‘what work does this lie do.’

Long Covid patients gaslit by GPs, Surrey study finds The University of Surrey study says patients faced "gatekeeping" of medical treatment from doctors.

"We found that people with long Covid are often led to fend for themselves in a system that isn't adequately informed about their condition and doesn't offer them appropriate medical support."

#LongCovid in the UK

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Read this thread! 🧵 It’s been clarifying to witness just how fast workplaces went from “we’re all in this together” to “forced infection is a condition of employment”. No discussion about making in-person work safer. CBC’s COVID coverage leaves much to be desired and sadly, this experience tracks.

Nov. 2, 1920 | White Mobs Destroy Black Community of Ocoee, Florida Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1920, a white mob in Ocoee, Florida, lynched as many as 30 Black Americans and razed the Black community because a Black man attempted to vote.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

UK will strip disgraced Andrew of last military position, minister says Britain's former prince Andrew is due to be stripped of his last remaining military position as part of King Charles' decision to remove his brother from public life, the defence minister said on Sunday.

UK will strip disgraced Andrew of last military position, minister says reut.rs/43Q8Y9I

me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

Nov. 1, 1879 | Government Separates Native Children from Families in Forced Assimilation Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1879, the Carlisle Indian School opened. This federally funded boarding school was designed to forcefully assimilate Native children.

In US first, New Mexico launches free child care for all New Mexico became on Saturday the first U.S. state to offer free child care to all residents in a bid to boost its economy and lift education and child welfare levels ranked the worst in the country.

In US first, New Mexico launches free child care for all reut.rs/47yNiQJ

I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.

COVID infection during pregnancy tied to higher autism rates: Study Children born to mothers infected with COVID-19 while pregnant face an elevated risk of autism, along with other developmental disorders including speech and motor del…

“Children born to mothers infected with COVID-19 while pregnant face an elevated risk of autism, along with other developmental disorders including speech and motor delays, according to a study released Thursday.”

The unsealed documents include emails in which Mr. Epstein helped to recruit the founders of Google to be JPMorgan clients in the early 2000s. The Times previously reported that one of the founders, Sergey Brin, ultimately put more than $4 billion into a JPMorgan account. The emails also show a JPMorgan executive discussing the potential use of complex trusts to reduce the taxes of Mr. Brin and his co-founder, Larry Page.

JPMorgan Alerted U.S. to Epstein Transfers Involving Wall St. Figures

NEW MONICA!!!!!!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

"In order to uncover spies, help others, and learn with scientific precision what the slave economy was like and how it could be resisted, vigilance activists routinely interviewed newly arrived fugitives, in many cases transcribing...conversations. Nearly 2,000 such interviews survive to this day."

"Vigilance committees were antislavery organizations that began forming in northeastern cities in the 1830s, often supported by Black churches...Their work took on new urgency after the revamped Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 unleashed terror in Black neighborhoods."

The Black People Who Fled Slavery Had a Lot to Teach Their Northern Allies Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.

"An organized urban wing of the [Underground] railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives."

Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue

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JPMorgan Alerted U.S. to Epstein Transfers Involving Wall St. Figures

Newly unsealed documents show that JPMorgan alerted federal regulators to potentially suspicious transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein and top Wall Street figures.

[These documents were unsealed because @nytimes.com and @wsj.com fought together in court.] 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

Prince Andrew To Lose 'Prince' Title, Buckingham Palace Says The disgraced prince will also be moving out of his home, Royal Lodge.

Read:

LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles and evict him from royal residence.

Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack

New York Times: 'Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack'

“It endorses a general idea..that infections are generally not benign,” said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a senior clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

Sometimes I believe that we will get through this for something better because we are yearning to take care of each other.

Virginia to continue SNAP benefits with state funds during federal uncertainty Virginia Emergency Nutrition Assistance will deliver benefits to individuals utilizing SNAP.

"We are prepared to fund this program for the entire month of November" https://www.29news.com/2025/10/28/virginia-continue-snap-benefits-with-state-funds-during-federal-uncertainty/ #SNAP #Virginia #hunger #poverty #USPolitics

Portland coffee shop has now raised over $200,000 to feed people losing SNAP benefits A Portland coffee shop that, as of Tuesday, had raised about $90,000 to help serve breakfast to people losing federal food benefits, has, a day later, raised nearly $200,000.

Oh shit I just googled the Oregonian article - they're up to 200K

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

the video being projected behind all the performers on stage

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack A new analysis adds to the research about the link between viral infections and heart disease.

A number of viral infections, including flu, Covid-19 and shingles, are linked to an increased risk of heart disease and stroke, a new study affirmed.

True Story: JRR Tolkien plotted a sequel to Lord Of The Rings where a couple generations later, disaffected teenage boys in Gondor start LARPing as orcs to be edgy.

He wrote a chapter or two but abandoned it as “too depressing”.

No, really. Absolutely true— tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_New...